Quoting Daniel Kahn Gillmor (dkg@fifthhorseman.net): > On 01/23/2012 01:30 AM, Vasudev Kamath wrote: > > My first question will be is it only fontforge or enitre pkg-fonts svn > > repository moving to git? > > my experience working with git is that we really want one repo per > project. And i'd rather not make transitioning the fontforge packaging > contingent on transitioning all other packaging. So my current proposal > is just to transition fontforge (though i'd be happy to see other > projects transition as well). I fully agree. Transitioning should be done package per package, when the person who is the most active maintaining the said package in the team is ready for that. I personnally feel like we would benefit from git transition for : - the most active and complicated packages (so, fontforge is a good candidate) - less active packages where upstream is using git for development (probably a few font packages are in such case) If would be useless for low-activity font packages where the current ultra-simple SVN layout is really enough. > > > Also if you need help in transition from svn to git count me in :) > > Thanks! If other folks are OK with the transition, i'll probably push a > proposed git tree somewhere public in the next week and ask for feedback > before trying to publish it git.debian.org. A review and suggestions at > that point would be really helpful (or if you just want to go ahead and > do the transition yourself, i'd be happy to provide the review -- i > don't really care which role i play in the process as long as it ends up > being well-done). I am fine with transitioning fontforge to git. I already maintain a few packages (in the pkg-running team) where git is used and one of them is indeed even using upstream's git. I'm not yet completely comfortable with all this and I sometimes do mistakes, but nothing that can't be reverted..:-) So, that means a GO from my side. The only argument stopping this would be Kestutis (who maintained FF for quite a while and did a good job at maintaining the package alive) popping out and yelling that he's not comfortable at all with this transition.
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